Description: He is scrawny and has patchy silver stubble. He wears an entirely brown suit with grey socks and a vest with buckled shoes. He has a hunchback. He has a silver handlebar mustache and slicked back silver hair. His eyes are gray and beady.

Personality: He speaks before he thinks and is too direct. His temper goes off on the smallest of things. He tends to lash out at those around him.

History: He was born to a criminal king-pin and mafia family He has had some formal painting training, and achieved minor success. He has never given up on his painting dream.

Motivation: He has comitted a past crime that haunts him to this day.

Ideals: Artistic. Flaws: Ugly, Impulsive, Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: pre-pubescent

Possessions: 200 pp. 1 Minor magic item.

Description: A plain young-adult man, he wears just a grey suit. He has a long chestnut beard with little hanging trinkets. He wears a mask on his face.

Personality: He swings through moods quickly. One moment he is cool and collected, the next he is carried away by passions. He is lazy and tries to find solutions quickly.

History: Born in the east to a Barrister, Lucan learned a great deal about his father's area of expertise. He couldn't stand his childhood mentor and eventually formed a pact with his mentor's previously failed apprentice to rebel. When their plan failed the mentor lashed out against both of them and fled. He has set out to sabotage the competition.

Motivation: Marry his brother to traveling adventurers; and further expansion of business

Ideals: Passionate. Flaws: Lazy. Bonds: Job, Mentor, Family. Occupation: Barrister

Voice: Soft and mumbly

Possessions: 1400 gp.

Description: He is a paragon of his species. He is larger and stronger than most Elves. His skin is dark but he possesses many pastel ritualistic tattoos. He wears dark leathers with embroidery. He has styled his red hair well, parting it to the left. His eyes are likewise violet. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from him. He is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Elf in existence. He plays an instrument quite well.

History: A child with a great deal of painting talent his parents made sure he got the chance to thrive. In his youth he was a Courier, and wanted to be a champion fighter when he grew up. He was working during a period of war, and as one of the natives he lived in fear of joining the others in being slaughtered. He saw the brutality and swore off his fighting aspirations, taking his younger brother on his back after seeing his parents die, and fled the country. Recently a tribe of brigands attacked the village and all able bodies who could hold a blade were quickly armed and sent to the walls. Laucian fought at the side of some of the regions greatest heroes but was never overshadowed.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences his actions

Ideals: Justice, Artistic, Fighting. Flaws: Ugly, PTSD. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Pirate accent

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: A moderately attractive man, he wears a shirt and pants that are bristling with pockets overflowing with maps, compasses, and other navigational equipment. His hair is short and black. He was beautiful and young once, which still shows through his age, but it is a faded beauty.

Personality: He barks his statements quickly and with little fuss. He prefers small words and is at his heart utilitarian. When he's not drinking or sleeping the drinks off, he's doing poetry.

History: He was raised in a forest tribe. Since his father passed away years ago, his mother had doted on him, and he came to think her himself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by his attractiveness, a trait in which he easily excels the other men of his town. He now has a substantial network of resources ranging from contacts to ships to peers.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Entrepeneur, Artistic. Flaws: Terse. Bonds: Attractive, Nature. Occupation: Bricklayer

Voice: Soothing and warm

Possessions: 100 pp. Lapis lazuli (7 gp). Bloodstone (20 gp). Sard (20 gp). Carnelian (20 gp). Golden yellow topaz (1600 gp). Freshwater pearl (7 gp). Aquamarine (1600 gp). Red-brown spinel (80 gp). Blue quartz (7 gp). 1 Medium magic item.

Description: This petite short man is perpetually holding a beer of some kind. He is bundled in multiple layers and is prepared for a desert trek wearing a turban that covers his face most of the time, marred by beers. He has dyed his greying auburn hair a little too much giving a sharp auburn color. His eyes are likewise amber. His teeth are yellowed and unaligned.

Personality: He loves justice and goodness and right action. Anyone who does not fulfill this criteria perfectly will no doubt get a lecture from him. He is the most sanctimonious self-righteous Elf in existence. He is however greedy and will demand payment and proof of collateral's value and will produce a merchant's scale to make sure he is not cheated out of a speck.

History: Heir to a fortune, his parents put a great deal of effort into curing his disease. A freak accident while working with his Bookbinder father left him crippled. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: Retire the richest man in the west.

Ideals: Justice, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Ugly, Disease. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Slow speaker

Possessions: 2400 gp.